End of the road for pedestrians?

As encroachments eat up footpaths, walkers are being pushed to the road. Will the Corporation be able to create space for them? Last year, according to traffic police records, nearly 500 pedestrians died on the city’s roads. The number of such fatal...

Autorickshaw study report

Chennai City Connect had recently engaged Civitas for studying the condition of Autorickshaw sector in Chennai. The report is now out. (Click to Open) The study was done with a statistically representative sample of 510 auto drivers. We went into the...

Perspective:

Mr Raj Cherubal, Director-Projects of Chennai City Connect is writing a weekly column on city infrastructure in Times Property. Metal stumps stick out from the road on my way to work – short, sharp ghosts of earlier signposts, few inches from the...

Vision 2011

Mr Raj Cherubal, Director Projects of Chennai City Connect is writing a weekly column on City Infrastructure in Times Property. Here is an excerpt of the first article: It is time to look forward optimistically to 2011 as the year of Chennai’s...

“Sustainable Growth” – fundamentals of urbanization – GRK Reddy, CMD Marg Properties

Following article by Mr GRK Reddy, CMD of Marg Group appeared in Times of India. Mr Reddy is member of the Executive Committee of Chennai City Connect. Tier 2 cities are fast progressing to be 2 million population cities leading to ever increasing urbanization...

Citizen Chennai – Gopal Srinivasan, CMD TVS Capital Funds

Following article by Mr Gopal Srinivasan, CMD of TVS Capital Funds appeared in Times of India, 21 December, 2010. Mr Gopal Srinivasan is member of the Executive Committee of Chennai City Connect. CITIZEN CHENNAI - IT IS TIME TO DREAM GLOBAL, PLAN LOCAL Taking...

Public Life Public Space Workshop

Chennai City Connect Foundation in association with ‘The Institute for Transportation Development & Policy’ (ITDP) organized a three day workshop with GEHL Architects in city. The Public Life Public Space Workshop in Progress Sharing the...

Street Development Manual

Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) has come up with a Street Development Manual. The manual discusses the various street elements in detail with various street width scenarios. City Connect is working with the ITDP to make Corporation...

Oren Tatcher, Transit Expert to visit Chennai

September 19, 2010toSeptember 22, 2010Oren Tatcher, AIA, HKIUD, Principal of OTC Limited, a Hong Kong-based planning and design firm specializing in transportation facilities and transport-oriented urban master plans, is visiting Chennai to meet authorities...

Pallikaranai Marsh – an opportunity?

After taking a policy decision to hand over 150 hectares of land in Pallikaranai to the forest department, the state government will take steps to acquire patches of land in the northern and south-eastern parts of the marsh, measuring about 127 hectares,...